Chamberlain Dam
- 1916
- Digital pigment print from original Bert Call negative
- Print Size 22 X 30 in / 55.9 x 76.2 cm
- Frame Size 30 X 37 in / 76.2 x 94.0 cm
“We reached the outlet in about an hour, and carried over the dam there, which is quite a solid structure, and about 1/4 quarter of a mile further there was a 2nd dam. The reader will perceive that the result of this particular damming about Chamberlain Lake is that the head waters of the St. John are made to flow by Bangor.”
“They have thus dammed all the larger lakes, raising their broad surfaces many feet; Moosehead for instance, some forty miles long, with its steamer on it; this turning the forces of Nature against herself, that they might float their spoils out of the country. They rapidly run out of these immense forests all the finer and more accessible pine timber, and then leave the bears to watch the decaying dams. Not clearing nor cultivating the land, nor making roads, nor building houses, but leaving it a wilderness, as they found it.”
—Henry David Thoreau, “1857 Allegash and East Branch”, The Maine Woods